Posted by antigua3 on January 28, 2009, at 12:27:06
In reply to Re: Risk of prolonged use of anti-depressives, posted by Garnet71 on January 28, 2009, at 11:27:58
I may be jumping in w/something that isn't really what you're talking about in this thread, but you bring something up for me.
I've been in therapy for many years. I've also suffered from several bouts of severe depression during those years, which I've gone on medication to alleviate the symptoms so that I could "supposedly" work with my therapy. But, I've found that the SSRIs blunted my emotions and made working on my issues even more difficult because I was unable to access my feelings as well. I think this has prolonged my healing immensely, although I do understand the need for me to have gone on those medications.
I believe that therapy can cause depression. Maybe I don't mean it in quite that way, but therapy can bring forth such emotional things and a downward spiral that has required medication for me. I have PTSD and there were roads I could never have travled in my therapy w/o the support of medication.
But... w/o the medication, I can actually "feel" things, which has helped me make a lot of progress in therapy, in a quicker albeit more painful way.
I don't know how it really works. I know I have cycles of depression and while I'm not depressed now, I know that at some point in my future life, it will hit again and I will have to deal with it.
antigua
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